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		rlvesco7 on Jan 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Observations from two weeks of SSH brute force att... Does fail2ban work against brute force distributed attacks? I've noticed a few attacks that seem to be orchestrated from the same people but using different IPs.

amethyst on Jan 26, 2012 [–]

It doesn't specifically target distributed attacks, but I'm not really sure how something like that could know whether incoming requests are part of a botnet or ligitimate logins.

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